"Heat storage"

Heat storage / Green Building & Sustainable Home Renovation Information & Advice

Efficient home design

The pros and cons of thermal mass in buildings

...heat stored in mass inside the building envelope, it will slow the temperature drop and possibly prevent you from needing to seek shelter elsewhere until the power comes back. Heating during off-peak hours: If you rely on radiant heat from thermal mass such as heated concrete floors, this can make heating with elect...

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Phase change building materials - natural heat storage in buildings

...heat in the icebox as it melted, keeping food cold. Using that example on a larger scale, you could in theory cool your house by having a large chunk of ice in it that absorbed heat from the air; but that wouldn't reduce energy consumption because you would need supplemental energy to cool it again in order to repeat t...

Efficient home design

Thermal batteries: how to passively store heat

...heated coils from a solar collector. Through that same tank runs another coil that is extracting the heat to pump it through your radiant floor or whatever other heating distribution system you have. Specific Heat Capacity: If you take solid paraffin (heat capacity Cp = 2.5 kJ/kg·K and heat of fusion of 210 kJ/kg), le...